{"id":193554,"date":"2022-06-05T18:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=193554"},"modified":"2022-06-05T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:14:53","slug":"akintoye-owo-church-attack-declaration-of-war-against-yoruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/05\/akintoye-owo-church-attack-declaration-of-war-against-yoruba\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Owo church attack declaration of war&#8221;, Akintoye reveals, urges Yoruba govs to ban Fulani herdsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba self-determination movement, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide has described the\u00a0Sunday attack on Christian worshipers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, by terrorists suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, leaving some people dead, as a declaration of war against the Yoruba people.<\/p>\n<p>Akintoye said, \u201cThe effrontery of the Fulani marauders needs to be frankly and courageously confronted so as to prove to their sponsors that the Yoruba people can never be intimidated or subjugated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ilana group\u2019s leader, in a statement by the Communications Secretary, Mr Maxwell Adeleye, titled, \u201cOwo Catholic church attack is a declaration of war against Yoruba people \u2013 Akintoye\u201d, called on Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to declare an emergency against the activities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/02\/gumi-to-fg-treat-fulani-herdsmen-like-niger-delta-militants\/\">Fulani herdsmen<\/a> in the state with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe have stated it very expressly that the Yoruba people need to negotiate their exit from Nigeria as a matter of urgency, but our partisan political actors in Yorubaland never took us serious. We warned them that there\u2019s fire on the mountain, but we were mocked because of their personal aggrandisement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we have all been encircled, most especially, in Lagos. For herdsmen to have the effrontery of bombarding a church in Yorubaland to kill some people, shows that we are now in a realistic danger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy urgent advice to Governor Akeredolu is to pick up the gauntlet and declare an emergency against the activities of all Fulani herdsmen in the state with immediate effect. We have now been taken for granted. We need not pretend anymore. We must demand unanimously, an exit from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the Yoruba people, cannot live in the same country with characters whose idea of common citizenship in Nigeria is to brutalise, subjugate and even exterminate us. It is time to leave these characters now. All stakeholders \u2013 the elites, traditional rulers, our women should act now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the South-West states, including the Yoruba leaders in Kogi and Kwara states should equally declare an emergency against the activities of Fulani herdsmen. We must now take our destinies into our hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba self-determination movement, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide has described the\u00a0Sunday attack on Christian worshipers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, by terrorists suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, leaving some people dead, as a declaration of war against the Yoruba people. 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